Erythrocyte deformability

Visible Validation in Lab tests demonstrate no direct relationship between module size and deformations

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Solar power stations can cut costs by using large-size modules that significantly reduce balance-of-system (BOS) costs and the LCOE.

Key Points: 
  • Solar power stations can cut costs by using large-size modules that significantly reduce balance-of-system (BOS) costs and the LCOE.
  • All deformations caused by pressures that do not exceed YS are elastic deformations, also known as recoverable deformations.
  • Such deformations do not damage the material's structure as only pressures exceeding the YS can cause destructive plastic deformations.
  • In brief, it is simply wrong to say that the larger a module is, the more deformations it must has.

Visible Validation in Lab tests demonstrate no direct relationship between module size and deformations

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Monday, March 20, 2023

Solar power stations can cut costs by using large-size modules that significantly reduce balance-of-system (BOS) costs and the LCOE.

Key Points: 
  • Solar power stations can cut costs by using large-size modules that significantly reduce balance-of-system (BOS) costs and the LCOE.
  • All deformations caused by pressures that do not exceed YS are elastic deformations, also known as recoverable deformations.
  • Such deformations do not damage the material's structure as only pressures exceeding the YS can cause destructive plastic deformations.
  • In brief, it is simply wrong to say that the larger a module is, the more deformations it must has.

Kanazawa University research: The offshoot of cells visualized in real time

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are tiny sacs released by cells to deliver chemical messengers to other cells.

Key Points: 
  • Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are tiny sacs released by cells to deliver chemical messengers to other cells.
  • A research team led by Richard Wong and Keesiang Lim at Kanazawa University has now used an advanced form of microscopy to elucidate these changes in real time.
  • Thus, research on sEVs for drug development requires a deeper understanding of how stressful environments affect the vesicles' structure.
  • Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs): sEVs are sacs containing chemicals such as proteins, DNA, or metabolites released by cells.

Kanazawa University research: The offshoot of cells visualized in real time

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are tiny sacs released by cells to deliver chemical messengers to other cells.

Key Points: 
  • Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are tiny sacs released by cells to deliver chemical messengers to other cells.
  • A research team led by Richard Wong and Keesiang Lim at Kanazawa University has now used an advanced form of microscopy to elucidate these changes in real time.
  • The University is located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in Kanazawa a city rich in history and culture.
  • Kanazawa University is divided into two main campuses: Kakuma and Takaramachi for its approximately 10,200 students including 600 from overseas.

Cell Groups Push, Rather than Pull, Themselves Into Place As Organs Form and Cancers Spread

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Monday, February 14, 2022

Published online in Nature Cell Biology on February 14, a new study found in a living embryo that the back ends of moving cell groups push the group forward.

Key Points: 
  • Published online in Nature Cell Biology on February 14, a new study found in a living embryo that the back ends of moving cell groups push the group forward.
  • This runs contrary to previous findings, where cell groups grown in dishes of nutrients (cultures) pulled themselves forward with their front edges.
  • The integrin clusters (focal adhesions) observed in the embryo were smaller than those seen in culture studies, and broke down faster.
  • Confirmation of such mechanistic details in living tissue have important implications, say the researchers, as many cancers spread in cell groups, and may use the newfound "rear engine propulsion."